Six Gates to the Sublime
Event description
Daylong Meditation Retreat with Michael Owens
The Six Gates to the Sublime is a classic Buddhist meditation instruction manual that explains a unique practice of a combined calming-and-insight (śamatha-vipaśyanā) exercise. The retreat will be a combination of guided and silent meditations centered on breath awareness (ānāpānasati) along with contemplative discourse on this ancient meditation technique.
All meditation levels are welcome.
About the Six Gates: Written by the sixth-century Chinese Buddhist meditation master Zhiyi, this classic text outlines six ‘gates’ or methods of increasing focus and concentration using six simple prompts: Counting, Following, Stabilizing, Contemplating, Turning, and Purity. Each prompt is an increasingly more subtle form of breath awareness, yet moving through the prompts sequentially is only one of many practices described in the text. This retreat will rely upon the The Six Dharma Gates to the Sublime translated from the Chinese by Dharmamitra (Kalavinka Press, 2009).
Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)
or 301-715-8592 to join by phone. Meeting ID: 545 039 806
Suggested donation $40 - $80. All are welcome. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
MC Owens is a Buddhist teacher, translator, and author who uses a sutra-based curriculum that draws from a variety of traditions to teach the history, philosophy, and practice of Buddhism. He teaches regularly for the San Francisco Dharma Collective and he also runs Lotus Underground – a repository of his teaching activities, audio recordings, and writings.
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